Spoon, handle carved with three points on each side.
Donor:
Frank G. Gist Jr.
Collection place:
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
United States, California, Sacramento.
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Maker or artist:
Frank G. Gist Jr.
Collector:
Ira Jacknis
Collection date:
4-15-1995
Materials:
Antler (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
March 1995
Accession date:
May 10, 1995
Context of use:
Used for eating acorn mush.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 19 centimeters and width 6 centimeters
Comment:
Made on commission from the museum at the request of Ira Jacknis, Associate Research Anthropologist, in anticipation of exhibition and publication. Version of a Klamath River spoon (1-1238, illustrated in Isabel Kelly, 1930: pl. 103b), a favorite of Gist's great-aunt Minnie Macomber.
Loans:
S1994-1995 #4: unknown (1994–December 19, 1996) and S1995-1996 #3: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (July 16, 1995–July 16, 1995)